Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular software available today for creating animations for the Web. Used to craft a variety of materials ranging from blinking Web banner ads through complex Web-based shopping environments up to fully interactive gaming experiences, Flash is everywhere.

In Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Animation Studio Techniques one of the world's most widely admired Flash animators, Chris Georgenes, starts by introducing the Flash user to each of the animation tools in the program and demonstrating technical and artistic aspects of their use. Then, the author leads the reader through various styles of animation and explains how they can be created using the tools in Flash. Amply illustrated with eye-catching examples from the author's own studio, Mudbubble (http://www.mudbubble.com) this book from Adobe Press is set to become a seminal Flash animation title.